Thank you all for providing an awesome Dakar 2013 experiance.
It was a fulltime job as usual to keep up with the play by play.
Nothing but the best round here. Good work to all who makes this THE place
to get thier Dakar F5ix.

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Should have pix soon! He didn't show up when they called his name this am (first one of the day).....sigh...oh no, here we go again. Where is Luis?????? He wanted to wait and cross with his brother. So he showed up later.

Why does ASO's website suck so bad....it's their event, No? Is there a complete final listing of all racers in all classes? Cyril won bike class but who was 101st? Who was 12th in car class? Anyone.....anyone........

Dakar is done and dusted besides all the ups and downs we had, Riaan showcased his amazing talent with a 13th overall winning his class. I knew from the start that he could do it. My crash was unfortunate, but I guess this is the nature of the Dakar ! Thanks so much to Broadlink, Grindrod Logistics, KTM, MTN, Leader Tread and Emperors Palace!

From Gilly (southern African team including Dave Reeve who broke his leg on SS12):

Dakar, done and dusted, podium is chaos, you are treated like cattle by police etc, and have to argue to get to your riders etc, guys need to know without the mechanics etc who put in the hard work, the wives who let them do it, etc there would be no Dakar. But we all know how hard it is to control things, but it was pretty soul destroying arguing with a non english speaking person to explain that you need to get through. Anyway, awesome experience, loved it, would turn around and do it again tomorrow once I have got my clothes and myself clean!!

To David, missed you here, you chop!!! Hope you are fit and well and on the mend, to Ingo what a star, Kit Kat (Riaan, you beauty you!!), Brett, awesome ride, Darryl, how you did it with your injury, I salute you, Sarel, gave everyone a big fright in the quad category, and the Toyota team, well done boys.

Charles, Jan, Onno thanks for putting up with me, and to Lisa, Emma and Jax, you guys are great. xxxxx
Oops and our go to fix it man, Glen, you are super duper!!

Ingo Waldschmidt going for the podium

Brett Cummings before the podium

Riaan van Nieker, Dakars No 1 Rookie on the Left (beating all the aussies ) With Brett Cummings and Glen Grundy at the finish yesterday

Manuel Lucchese, the Italian rider that never gives up. Keegan, here is your shirt signed by him, for you, a guy who also never gives up!! — with Keegan Longueira. - photo Glen Grundy

Sarel van Biljon, another stage win in the quads at Dakar for Sarel and South Africa. It has been an honor to be around him (
and I'm saying this as a two-wheeler nogal!) Google the word on his t-shirt if you have a minute.....Mooi so Sarel, jou bullet!!!!
Photo Glen Grundy at the start of the last stage.

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Click on rankings. then look down where you expect results, and click on 'classifications of the day before' beside 'Stage in progress'

Once that page opens, pick your class for the deets.

Thank you. Yes, so very straight forward website formating here in 2013....or even 2003 . So for example, Pyndon shows in bike class as finishing the 2013 Dakar as #46. I assume that's correct? And, yes, I followed Dakar in detail evey day here as Team F5 just as I have for years..... I was looking for 2009 overall lisitings a few days ago and good luck with that on dakar.com. Wikipedia and overall internet covers the ASO's "proprietery" information better.